Literature

• Folklore refers to traditionally derived and orally transmitted literature.
• Folktales reflect the people's beliefs handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth.
• An epilogue is the conclusion or final part of a non-dramatic literary work.
• Genre is a distinctive type of literary composition such as epic, tragedy, comedy, and novel.
• "Quo Vadis" means "where are you going".
• Hieroglyphics are the oldest form of Egyptian writing.
• Allegory is a narrative whose meaning is beneath the surface.
• Elegy is a meditated poem of grief.
• Sonnet is a verse with 14 iambic pentameter lines.
• Epic is a long poem that depicts the adventure of a great hero who reveals his country's aspirations, narrates heroic deeds and supernatural happenings with local actors.
• Soliloquy is a speech made by a person who reveals his thoughts.
• "How my brother Leon brought home a wife" is a story by Manuel Arcilla.
• "The Legend of a Sleepy Hollow" is a story by Washington Irving.
• The Fall of the house of usher is a story about a hypochondriac living in morbid fear.
• Cyrano de Bergerac is a poet and soldier noted for his peculiar nose.
• "The Illiad of Homer" is a great epic poem whose plot centers around the anger and wrath of Achilles against Agamemnon.
• "The Bells" is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe that begins with the line "If eyes are made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being".
• Cacophony is a literary term that means harsh and discordant sounds introduced for poetic effect.
• George Bernard Shaw is known for his excellence of characterization, swiftness of narrative, and clarity of style.
• Edgar Allan Poe is the greatest American writer of horror and detective stories.
• Rabindranath Tagore is best known for his collection of poems called Gitanjali/song offerings.
• Robert Frost is ranked as one of the best modern American poets.
• Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the Morning Star of English Literature.
• Mark Twain is known as "Samuel Clemens".
• Harriet Stowe is known for her novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
• Charles Darwin is known for his work "Origin of species".
• Lazlo Biro is known for inventing the ball point pen.
• Harry Potter is known for his epic kind of story.
• Thomas Gray - "When ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."
• Sophocles (Oedipus Rex) - dramatic irony, Oedipus is blind to his own fate.